Michaël F. Steehouder

List of John Benjamins publications for which Michaël F. Steehouder plays a role.

Articles

Jansen, Carel and Michaël F. Steehouder 2001 2. How research can lead to better government formsReading and Writing Public Documents, Janssen, Daniël and Rob Neutelings (eds.), pp. 11–36 | Chapter
This paper proposes that bureaucratic texts (texts which explain government schemes and regulations) should benefit from principles developed for instructional text. Some principles f or instructional bureaucratic texts are proposed, and a design procedure is suggested that aims to determine the… read more
Jansen, Carel and Michaël F. Steehouder 1984 Improving the text of a public leafletInformation Design Journal 4:1, pp. 10–18 | Article
In this article a provisional set of eight criteria is proposed for the analysis and the design of texts in the field of public information. To test the value of this set of criteria, an experiment was carried out concerning a Dutch leaflet on a regulation on Rent Rebate Grants. Rewriting the… read more
To identify problems that citizens meet when reading a public leaf-let, we invited some subjects to participate in a thinking aloud experiment. They were asked to find out if a Dutch regulation on Rent Rebate Grants would apply in the situation of a certain Mr. De Vries. The thinking aloud… read more